Microsoft Corp (MSFT)

[TechWhiz]

Good news for the Dividend.

Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday announced that its board of directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.62 per share, reflecting a 6 cent or 11% increase over the previous quarter's dividend.

Luke warm news on the Buyback. We are approaching a 52 week high, thus they could have lowered the Buyback and put a bigger increase into the Dividend or use the $$$ to go on a shopping spree to buy up a few companies that might improve their Azure Cloud Business.

The board of directors also approved a new share repurchase program authorizing up to $60 billion in share repurchases. The new share repurchase program, which has no expiration date, may be terminated at any time.